US Patent Issued to Huf Baolong Electronics Bretten on July 21 for "Method for detecting a wear-relevant load on a vehicle wheel" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,239, issued on July 21, was assigned to Huf Baolong Electronics Bretten GmbH (Bretten, Germany).

"Method for detecting a wear-relevant load on a vehicle wheel" was invented by Markus Wagner (Flehingen, Germany) and Patrick Voegeli (Weingarten, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for detecting a wear-relevant load on a vehicle wheel uses a tire pressure monitoring unit mounted on the vehicle wheel containing an acceleration sensor. A rotational frequency of the vehicle wheel is determined for a time interval from a series of measured values of the acceleration sensor at first time intervals. A centrifugal acceleration valu...